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Since commit 6771fc6f1d9 "Use a .def file for domain_enum", the
sym-domains.def file has been introduced, and requires the user to
define the DOMAIN(x) macro.
On older systems (centos-7 with glibc-2.17 for example), this DOMAIN
macro conflicts with another macro defined in /usr/include/math.h.
Fix this conflict by changing sym-domains.def to use a macro named
SYM_DOMAIN instead of DOMAIN.
Change-Id: I679df30e2bd2f4333343f16bbd2a3511a37550a3
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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This patch changes the DWARF reader to use the new symbol domains. It
also adjusts many bits of associated code to adapt to this change.
The non-DWARF readers are updated on a best-effort basis. This is
somewhat simpler since most of them only support C and C++. I have no
way to test a few of these.
I went back and forth a few times on how to handle the "tag"
situation. The basic problem is that C has a special namespace for
tags, which is separate from the type namespace. Other languages
don't do this. So, the question is, should a DW_TAG_structure_type
end up in the tag domain, or the type domain, or should it be
language-dependent?
I settled on making it language-dependent using a thought experiment.
Suppose there was a Rust compiler that only emitted nameless
DW_TAG_structure_type objects, and specified all structure type names
using DW_TAG_typedef. This DWARF would be correct, in that it
faithfully represents the source language -- but would not work with a
purely struct-domain implementation in gdb. Therefore gdb would be
wrong.
Now, this approach is a little tricky for C++, which uses tags but
also enters a typedef for them. I notice that some other readers --
like stabsread -- actually emit a typedef symbol as well. And, I
think this is a reasonable approach. It uses more memory, but it
makes the internals simpler. However, DWARF never did this for
whatever reason, and so in the interest of keeping the series slightly
shorter, I've left some C++-specific hacks in place here.
Note that this patch includes language_minimal as a language that uses
tags. I did this to avoid regressing gdb.dwarf2/debug-names-tu.exp,
which doesn't specify the language for a type unit. Arguably this
test case is wrong.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30164
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This adds two new symbol domain constants, TYPE_DOMAIN and
FUNCTION_DOMAIN.
Historically, gdb was a C debugger, and the symbol tables continue to
reflect this. In particular, symbol domains match the C language,
with VAR_DOMAIN including variables, functions, and types.
However, other languages have other approaches to namespacing. And,
in any case, it is often useful for other parts of gdb to be able to
distinguish between some domains at lookup time, without resorting to
examining a symbol's location -- in some situations, this sort of
filtering happens too late.
Nothing uses these new domains yet, but the idea behind the patch is
to separate symbols into more domains and then let the
language-specific parts of gdb implement their semantics in terms of
these categories.
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Future patches will change and reuse the names from domain_enum. This
patch makes this less error-prone by having a single point to define
these names, using the typical gdb ".def" file.
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